'Fahrenheit 9/11' Ignites Box Office Passion

Box Office Mojo ^ | 06/27/2004 | Brandon Gray

[Sensei Ern]

I am glad to see this movie come out. I hope it inspires more libs to come out with other such crap. The more money spent on this type of garbage, the less money these libs have to contribute to the Democrat Party.

Sure Michael Moron makes millions off of this. And, he may contribute a mill to Kerry.However, much of the money will go to entrepreneurial capitalists...Of the $22 million made, Moore gets a couple million...That means, $22 million of the original liberal buying dollars, less than 10% will go directly to the Kerry campaign.

The movie will make some hardened against Bush, but they were ones who already hated him. The rest of us realize it is just propaganda BS.

Sensei Ern

[BushisTheMan]

But what will the numbers be next week after all the DNC, Democratic party faithful, Bush haters, Communists, Socialists, Marxists, ANSWER members, TeeRayZAH and John, have seen it?

Numbers fall dramatically and he will go back to the dustbin of irrelevancy.

[af_vet_rr]

It's competing against "White Chicks" and "Dodgeball" and this is some kind of victory for liberals?????

That's like Carl Lewis taking a bunch of first graders out to a track and then beating them in a 100m race and proclaiming himself one of the greatest sprinters of all time.

[Rabid Dog]

This movie is being being bannered as the "high grossing documentary" - but it isn't a documentary - it is just a movie. Even MM is backing away from it being a documentary so it really should be compared to just a regular old movie and I don't think the opening would be that spectacular.

Also, you can bet that a few million in tickets were snapped up by DNC interests - not individuals.

And now that Iraq has been handed over, the whole movie is irrelevent. Bummer for MM.

We went to see Dodgeball which was quite funny!

[jim_trent]

I rented "Bubba Ho-Tep" instead. It is about a good-ol-boy Egyptian mummy with cowboy boots and a 10-gallon hat living in east Texas. He feeds off the souls of people in a nursing home. When two of the residents, a geriatric Elvis and JFK (the first one, played by Ossie Davis) learn of it, they proceed to battle evil (in an electric wheelchair and a walker).

In other words, it was much more truthful and more of a documentary than Michael Moores film was.

[Know your rights]

We were going to see DodgeBall but after seeing the starts at the Kerry Rally, we opted for Terminal.

20/20 hindsight: conservatives should have organized to push some other movie past F911 for the top spot. (The Passion Of The Christ would have been an obvious choice.) Oh, well ....

[sr4402]

My step-son Valley Forge College Sophomore said it was pure liberal bilge. I'm hoping more young people will come out more disgusted with the liberals than before they went in.

[Right Wing Professor]

I'm proud to say it is impossible to see Fahrenshite 911 in Lincoln NE; none of our movie theaters are showing it.

[NYCVirago]

With $21.958 million in the till since its record-breaking debut in New York City on Wednesday, Fahrenheit 9/11 is already the highest grossing documentary of all time -- excluding large format, concert and other non-"apples-to-apples" sub-genres – surpassing Moore's own Bowling for Columbine's $21.6 million lifetime gross.

Then it's NOT the highest-grossing documentary of all time, if other types of documentaries have to be excluded in order to make that point. It's like saying that the Houston Astros (currently in 5th place) of the NL Central are the top-ranked team in the division, if you exclude teams from the Midwest from that calculation.

[ZULU]

My guess is they were careful WHERE to market this pig's movie. It probably appeared at all the liberal Democratic enclaves.

[daviddennis]

No need for copyright violation; I believe the DNC is already planning to distribute DVDs of it, feeling it would help their cause!

Hope that helps.

D

[daviddennis]

Oops! You're right; I didn't realize that Moore had encouraged this!

Sometimes you gotta laugh.

I guess he's made his pile, so he doesn't care anyway - and of course the in-theater experience is a lot better.

D

[Sensei Ern]

Bubba Ho Tep Bump!

I love Bruce Campbell. I have his signed biography. He signed it, "Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun."

The movie won't appeal to a lot of people...it has a lot of crotchety old man cussing.

But, if you rent it, watch it a second time and listen to Bruce and the director commentary while watching it. You'll laugh more then.

Sensei Ern